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{{Short description|Research institution in India}}
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| name = National Institute of Disaster Management '''(NIDM)'''
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| motto = ''Resilient India - Disaster free India''
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| established = 1995
| mission = *To work as consulting agency for the Government by providing assistance in policy formulation and; 
*To facilitate in reducing the impact of disasters through its technological innovations.
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| president = [[Home Minister of India]]
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| head_label = Executive Director
| head = Shri Safi Ahsan Rizvi, IPS 1989 batch
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| staff = 22
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| owner = [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]], [[Government of India]]
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| former_name = National Centre for Disaster Management (Upgraded to present status on 16 October 2003 ) 
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| website = {{url|www.nidm.gov.in}}
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'''National Institute of Disaster Management''' ('''NIDM''') is an Indian education and research institution located in [[Connaught Place, New Delhi]]. NIDM is primarily responsible for the training and capacity development programs for managing [[natural disaster]]s in [[India]].

It was constituted under an [[Act of Parliament]] in 1995; was re-designated to give the present name of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) by the ''Disaster Management Act 2005''<ref name="DMAct">{{cite web | url=http://ndma.gov.in/ndma/pdf/DM_Act2005.pdf | title=Disaster Management Act 2005 | publisher=NDMA | accessdate=30 May 2012}}</ref> assented to by the [[President of India]] on 9 January 2006.<ref name="a">{{cite journal | url=http://works.bepress.com/aparna_meduri/20/ | title=The Disaster Management Act, 2005 | author=Aparna Meduri | journal=The ICFAI Journal of Environmental Law. | year=2006 | issue=6–11 | editor=E.N.Murthy | publisher=The ICFAI University Press | archive-date=17 August 2018 | access-date=10 January 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817023040/https://works.bepress.com/aparna_meduri/20/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==
The [[International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction]],<ref name="A/RES/54/219">{{UN document |docid=A/RES/54/219 |type=Resolution |body=General Assembly |session=54 |resolution_number=219 |accessdate=2011-07-05|date=3 February 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Our Mandate|url=http://www.unisdr.org/who-we-are/mandate|publisher=The United Nations The Office for Disaster Risk Reduction|accessdate=2 August 2012}}</ref> proposed with the purpose of ensuring the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction prompted the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, the nodal ministry for disaster management in [[India]] to establish a national centre for management and planning the control of such natural disasters in 1995.

The centre was later upgraded as the National Institute of Disaster management (NIDM) on 16 October 2003, with the transfer of responsibility for disaster management to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The institute was inaugurated by the Home Minister on 11 August 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NIDM Genesis|url=https://nidm.gov.in/genesis.asp}}</ref>

==Responsibilities==
The National Disaster Management Act of 2005 granted the institute statutory organisation status. The Act holds the institute responsible for "planning and promoting training and research in the area of disaster management, documentation and development of national level information base relating to disaster management policies, prevention mechanisms and mitigation measures".<ref name="genesis">{{cite web | url=https://nidm.gov.in/genesis.asp | title=Genesis and Functions | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | accessdate=28 December 2012 | author=National Institute of Disaster Management}}</ref>

The NIDM has been mandated to be a deemed university and institute of excellence in learning and capacity building. NIDM has worked with other organisations to develop a model curriculum for strengthening disaster management in higher education and research. Most central universities have envisaged the operation of Centres for Disaster Management under their School of Environmental Studies.

===Training===
NIDM works under the government's directives to train and conduct periodic checks to regulate effective earthquake and disaster control policies throughout the country with support from semi-government, private firms and [[non-government organisations]]. It also conducts mock drills, crisis communication training and hazard hunt exercises every two to three months. In 2012 [[Delhi]] witnessed one of the biggest mock drills conducted in India, simulating an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 on the [[Richter Scale]]. The main purpose was to check the alertness and preparedness of various agencies, commuters and residents in the event of a disaster of such magnitude.<ref name=g>{{cite news|title=Mega drill in Delhi to test quake readiness|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article2895669.ece|accessdate=1 June 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=15 February 2012|location=[[New Delhi]]}}</ref> 
The [[National Disaster Management Authority (India)|National Disaster Management Authority]] and Delhi Disaster Management Authority jointly conducted the drills at several places across the national capital.

== See also ==
* [[National Disaster Management Authority (India)]]
* [[National Disaster Response Force]]

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